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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaulRAnderson, post: 799830, member: 22935&quot;]I would suspect that if we stopped making 1¢ coins and rounding to the nearest nickel was allowed, you could still pay to the exact penny if you had some 1¢ coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was proposed by Representative Kolbe a number of years ago as the &quot;Legal Tender Modernization Act&quot;.&nbsp; The coins would forever remain legal tender but simply would no longer be made, and would allow rounding to the nearest nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an organization that favors the elimination of the 1¢ coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; &lt;<a href="http://www.retirethepenny.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.retirethepenny.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.retirethepenny.org/</a>&gt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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